Melissa Theuriau is perhaps most well known as the most beautiful newscaster in the world. That is the name she received after being voted such by a worldwide audience. However, her career goes back much farther. Her degrees in journalism have helped her to achieve much of the success she has had. In fact, her degrees in prominent schools helped her to land her first big roles in television and in journalism itself.

After getting her education, she applied for and landed a job as a reporter for Match TV. That was in 2002, when she just left school. However, Melissa Theuriau continued on with the organization until Melissa Theuriau became a reporter for La Chaine Info. Her popularity and education helped her to land an anchor job with that news organization in 2003. Her anchor position, just a few years out of school, helped her to gain notoriety with the general public in France, where the news program aired. The channel helped her to land a travel show gig as a host for La Chaine Info in the coming year. She also worked for TF1.

Over the next years, she worked on LCI Matin (La Chaine Info Morning) which started at 6:40 in the morning each day. She also worked on news for LCI and TF1 during the week. On Wednesdays, she started in a television show called Voyages, a travel based show that appeared at 13:55 on La Chaine Info. Her biggest shake up came when she declined an offer to be the anchorperson for the weekend evening news program on TF1. Her decision to not take the position in May of 2006 was due in part to the position being a summer replacement for the current newscaster, Claire Chazal.

It was just a month later that Metropole 6 announced that Melissa Theuriau would be joining the company in September. Metropole 6 is another French television channel and director competitors to La Chaine Info. Her arrival at Metropole 6 was in the position of editor in chief and presenter of the weekly magazine show called Zone Interdite, or Forbidden Zone. The news program focused on investigative reporting on various topics.

Melissa Theuriau also works as a presenter for the television programs Un Jour, Une Photo and Deux. These programs are a part of the French television channel Paris Premiere. It is a partnership between that channel and Paris Match. Un Jour, Une Photo was a show that took viewers behind the seasons of historic and iconic photos. Deux focused on providing a travel program in which guests of the program revealed more about themselves during a trip.

Her biggest claim to fame, though, occurred in 2006 when she was voted the world's most beautiful news reporter by the Daily Express. Other magazine and online programs voted her for her in this area as well. She was appointed to co-editor in chief of Zone Interdize in September of 2006 and anchor of that program. La Rose, a charity organization working with UNICEF, is a program she launched and is also known for.